Article 26 7

7.   Member States may provide for exemptions from the obligations laid down in paragraphs 1 to 5 of for studies conducted in the interests of defence.

Where a Union legal act listed in Annex I, Part 1, provides that Member States may provide for exemptions from the obligations of that legal act in the interests of national security, Member States may provide for exemptions from the obligations laid down in paragraphs 1 to 5.